Ms. Southgate,

            Good Afternoon!  I met you last year at the South Carolina Science Council Conference in Myrtle Beach.  I have read all three of your books and used the first one to introduce my 5^th grade classes to Science Fair Projects and how to complete them.  We had a Science Fair at our school for the first time in February and it was a great success.

            I am planning on submitting a proposal to present at this years conference and I would like to include your book as a resource.  I would like to share with other teachers how I used it to get my whole school excited about science and completing a project. (I dressed up as DJ Jazzy Jakki and the Science Rap crew and we performed your science rap on our televised morning show!!)   I know that you were at last year’s conference and I was wondering if you had plans to be there this year.  I don’t want to repeat what you or someone from Showboard might be doing if they have already made plans to attend.

            I love your books and I am planning on using “No Place Like Periwinkle” with my Landforms unit next year.  I have also gotten my principal to agree to buy class sets of “Agnes Pflumm and the StoneCreek Science Fair” for next years classes.  Are you currently working on any other books??  Thanks for giving teachers such a great and fun J resource to use in our classrooms.